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Mercurial Austrian rightist dead in car crash

Oct. 11, 2008
Joerg Haider, who catapulted his rightist anti-immigration party into a powerful force with sharp attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58. His death on a little traveled stretch of a southern...
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